MURDER BALLADS Original Soundtrack Single and Graphic Novel Preview

Featuring music by bluesman Robert Finley and Grammy-Award winner Dan Auerbach

And an Excerpt of the Acclaimed Graphic Novel by Gabe Soria, Paul Reinwand and Chris Hunt

(August 8, 2017) Z2 Comics has published the eagerly anticipated MURDER BALLADS original soundtrack by bluesman Robert Finley and Grammy-Award winner Dan Auerbach and the graphic novel by writer Gabe Soria and artists Paul Reinwand and Chris Hunt, now on sale wherever books are sold. The MURDER BALLADS Original Soundtrack includes Finley and Auerbach’s cover of the classic Leadbelly song “In the Pines” and four original songs—“Bang Bang,”“Butter Sandwich”, “The Empty Arms” and “Three Jumpers”—created specifically by Finley and Auerbach to accompany the MURDER BALLADSgraphic novel about the music industry and redemption. The standard edition MURDER BALLADS graphic novel includes downloadable codes to the original soundtrack.

Z2 Comics has released the single “Bang Bang” from the MURDER BALLADS original soundtrack, which is only available with the purchase of the graphic novel and will not be sold separately:

MURDER BALLADS has been receiving widespread critical acclaim:

“The story of Murder Ballads explores the seedy underbelly of American music history, the darkness and violence that sometimes fuels hit records.”—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

“Coen Brothers-Esque” —BILLBOARD

“Gritty.”—THE TENNESSEAN

“Intriguing.”—CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND

“Paul Reinwand and Chris Hunt both submerse the reader into the smoky, bottom-shelf underworld of Shreveport, Louisiana, swinging from moody swaths of ink to angular suspense sequences. The additional album constructs an immersive, form-is-function totem to an art form baked into the fabric of America’s underbelly, and a trans-media experience unlike anything released this year.”—PASTE MAGAZINE

A meditation on music, obsession and how far someone will go to see their vision become real, MURDER BALLADS follows the fall and reinvention of Nate Theodore, the dead-broke and deadbeat owner of a failing record label who is on a cross-country drive in the dead of winter, fleeing the wreckage of his business and trying to save his crumbling marriage. Nate is given an unexpected chance to reverse his fortunes when, during a stop in a desolate rust belt town, he “discovers” Donny and Marvell Fontweathers, two African-American brothers who play a raucous brand of doom-laden country blues.

Later this fall, Mondo will release a Limited Edition MURDER BALLADS Original Vinyl Soundtrack and Graphic Novel which will retail for $200, featuring original album cover art by Jon Langford, the acclaimed visual artist best known for his striking portraits of country and rock music icons including Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley and limited edition prints by Tyler Boss (4 KIDS WALK INTO A BANK).

Featuring music by bluesman Robert Finley and Grammy-Award winner Dan Auerbach
And an Excerpt of the Acclaimed Graphic Novel by Gabe Soria, Paul Reinwand and Chris Hunt
(August 8, 2017) Z2 Comics has published the eagerly anticipated MURDER BALLADS original soundtrack by bluesman Robert Finley and Grammy-Award winner Dan Auerbach and...

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